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Bobby Rodriguez

b. Un Barrio (Spanish Harlem), Manhattan, NEW YORK, USA. Never to become confused using the veteran bass participant from the same name, music group innovator, saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist, pianist, vocalist, percussionist, arranger, composer, maker Rodríguez was an associate of his sibling Ray’s music group in the past due 60s and …

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Kevin Ceballo

Puerto Rican-descendant tropical singer/songwriter Kevin Ceballo was inspired by gospel music, singing and taking piano classes at an extremely young age. It had been while participating in New York’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of Music and Artwork, popularized in the film Popularity, when the talented musician started composing, shortly, forming a …

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Beny Moré

Beny Moré is the foremost singer of well-known music Cuba has ever produced. Believe Frank Sinatra or Nat Ruler Cole and you will get a concept of how he’s recognized in Cuba, and exactly how he ought to be deemed elsewhere. Within the almost half hundred years since his loss …

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Teddy Reig

A colorful character and something of the very most essential jazz producers ever, Teddy Reig was involved with many essential periods from the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. He began making in 1945 and was shortly working frequently at Savoy of all of the most significant schedules (like the Charlie Parker …

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Xavier Cugat

Appreciated for his highly commercial method of pop music, Xavier Cugat (delivered Francisco de Asis Javier Cugat Mingall de Cru y Deulofeo) produced a much greater mark among the pioneers of Latin American dance music. During his eight-decade-long profession, Cugat helped to popularize the tango, the cha-cha, the mambo, as …

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Daniel Ponce

A star percussionist and something of the best possible to result from Cuba because the heyday of Chano Pozo, Candido Camero, and Armando Peraza, Daniel Ponce displayed rhythmic mastery of both traditional Cuban noises and modern African-American rhythms. Ponce’s grandfather was a popular bata drum participant and offered his grandson …

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Grupo Fantasma

Austin-based Latin funk jam band Grupo Fantasma shaped in 2000, and quickly founded a reputation for his or her high-energy concert events. Comprised of music artists hailing from around Latin America, Fantasma’s players had been brought collectively by Austin’s bustling music picture, finding in one another a food cravings and …

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Ray Martinez

We were young in NEW YORK, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, bassist Ray Martinez first started performing in ny with an organization called Frequency. Manufacturer Teo Macero, no slouch with regards to looking for skill, found this band for the CBS documenting, kick-starting Martinez’s energetic career being a bassist, …

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Cachao

In tandem along with his multi-instrumentalist sibling Orestes, bassist Israel “Cachao” López introduced to Cuban music the African rhythms that changed the island’s traditional danzón into what’s now referred to as the mambo — he also pioneered the descarga, the late-night jam sessions that revolutionized the sound and scope of …

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Caribbean Jazz Project

For a particular concert on the Central Recreation area Zoo in 1993, vibraphonist Dave Samuels (who doubles on marimba) come up with the Caribbean Jazz Task for the very first time. Teaming Samuels using the outstanding (and pioneering) jazz metal drummer Andy Narell and saxophonist Paquito d’Rivera (who alternates between …

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